Saveri

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox ragam Script error: No such module "Sidebar". Saveri (pronounced sāvēri) is a Carnatic music ragam. This raga is a janya of the 15th Melakarta raga Mayamalavagowla. This raga brings out karuna rasa, i.e. it brings mood of compassion.[1]

Structure and Lakshana

File:Karnataka Shuddha Saveri scale.svg
Ascending scale with Shadjam at C
File:Mayamalavagowla scale.svg
Descending scale with Shadjam at C

This ragam is an Audava-Sampurna ragam (five notes in the ascending scale and seven notes in the descending scale).

The notes are shuddha rishabham, shuddha madhyamam and shuddha dhaivatam in ascending scale and kakali nishadam, shuddha dhaivatam, shuddha madhyamam, antara gandharam and shuddha rishabham in descent. The two swaras which give the raga such a characteristic are R (Rishabham) and D (Dhaivatham).

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Related rāgams

This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.

Scale similarities

  • Karnataka Shuddha Saveri is a pentatonic scale which has a symmetric descending scale as the ascending scale, which is same as the ascending scale of Saveri, while Saveri has a sampurna descending scale. Its Script error: No such module "lang". structure is S R1 M1 P D1 S : S D1 P M1 R1 S
  • Malahari is a audava-shadava scale (5 notes in ascending and 6 in descending scale) that resembles Saveri.[2] Its ascending scale has shuddha madhyamam in place of antara gandharam, while the nishadham is dropped in descending scale. Its Script error: No such module "lang". structure is S R1 M1 P D1 S : S D1 P M1 G3 R1 S

Notes

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References

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  1. Ragas in Carnatic music by Dr. S. Bhagyalekshmy, Pub. 1990, CBH Publications
  2. Raganidhi by P. Subba Rao, Pub. 1964, The Music Academy of Madras

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